Yogi Berra

[Rolfe]

Berra, Yankees Hall of Fame Catcher With a One-of-a-Kind Wit, Dies at 90

Yogi Berra, one of baseball’s greatest catchers and characters, who as a player was a mainstay of 10 Yankee championship teams and as a manager led both the Yankees and Mets to the World Series — but who may be more widely known as an ungainly but lovable cultural figure, inspiring a cartoon character and issuing a seemingly limitless supply of unwittingly witty epigrams known as Yogi-isms — died on Tuesday. He was 90.


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/24/s...dies-at-90-yankees-baseball-catcher.html?_r=0

End of an era.

 

[777]

What a loss but now he is with his maker. Yogi Berra was simply awesome all-around, great player, great spokesman, great coach, great person. He claims he didn't say all that:

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/09/the-50-greatest-yogi-berra-quotes

but he certainly had a way with words and even had a cartoon character named after him.

 

[Rippon]

but he certainly had a way with words and even had a cartoon character named after him.

Which he did not get credit for. Hanna Barbara simply said it was a coincidence that their major character,Yogi Bear was similiar to Yogi Berra's name.

 

[Squire Robertsson]

He sued HB and won. As a Gunner's Mate, he served on the Attack Transport Ship the USS Bayfield.
The Bayfield landed troops at Utah Beach for D-Day, Southern France, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa,

 

[salzer mtn]

This morning after I heard the news I told my wife that Yogi Berra had died. She ask me, " Is this a bear or a person" ?

 

[Alcott]

It ain't over till it's over. But now it's over.

 

[Salty]

It ain't over till it's over. But now it's over.

or is it????

 

[Alcott]

or is it????

That depends on what "it" is.I've always thought "it" was something seen or heard. What is "it" to you?

 

[Rippon]

He sued HB and won.

No, he did not win. He tried to sue, but dropped the suit with HB.

 

[Salty]

This morning after I heard the news I told my wife that Yogi Berra had died. She ask me, " Is this a bear or a person" ?

Mrs Salty said "oh, you mean the guy who did his voice"

 

[wpe3bql]

Yogi Berra sure came up with some memorable one-liner "Yogi - isms," didn't he!!

If you look up Yogi Berra in Wikipedia, you'll find some of his more classic "Yogi - isms."